SPC BENCHMARK 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3PAR INC. 3PARINSERV T800 STORAGE SERVER SPC-1 V1.10.1

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1 SPC BENCHMARK 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3PAR INC. 3PARINSERV T800 STORAGE SERVER SPC-1 V Submitted for Review: September 2, 2008 Submission Identifier: A00069

2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Page 2 of 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Test Sponsor and Contact Information Test Sponsor Primary Contact Test Sponsor Alternate Contact Test Sponsor Alternate Contact Auditor Test Sponsor and Contact Information 3PAR Inc. Bill McCormack bill.mccormack@3par.com 4609 Technology Drive Fremont, CA Phone: (510) FAX: (510) PAR Inc. John Cooper john.cooper@3par.com 4609 Technology Drive Fremont, CA Phone: (510) FAX: (510) PAR Inc. Geoff Hough geoff.hough@3par.com 4609 Technology Drive Fremont, CA Phone: (510) FAX: (510) Storage Performance Council Walter E. Baker AuditService@StoragePerformance.org 643 Bair Island Road, Suite 103 Redwood City, CA Phone: (650) FAX: (650) Revision Information and Key Dates Revision Information and Key Dates SPC-1 Specification revision number SPC-1 Workload Generator revision number V V a Date Results were first used publicly September 2, 2008 Date the FDR was submitted to the SPC September 2, 2008 Date the TSC is available for shipment to customers September 2, 2008 Date the TSC completed audit certification August 29, 2008

3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Page 3 of 7 Tested Storage Product (TSP) Description 3PAR designed the 3PAR InServ T800 Storage Server to deliver high levels of performance and consolidation simply and affordably, so that customers don t have to overprovision capacity or resort to overly complex administration to increase performance and improve capacity utilization. 3PAR s unique and tightly-clustered InSpire Architecture was designed to ensure high and predictable levels of performance for all workloads, as well as high utilization rates for purchased resources. Central to the InSpire design is a high-bandwidth, low-latency backplane that unifies cost-effective, modular, and scalable components into a highly available and autonomically load-balanced cluster. The 3PAR Gen3 ASIC featured by 3PAR s T-Class storage arrays was also designed to alleviate performance concerns and cut traditional array costs by allowing the InServ to deliver mixed workload support, whereby transaction- and throughput-intensive workloads run without contention on the same storage resources.

4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Page 4 of 7 Summary of Results SPC-1 Results Tested Storage Configuration (TSC) Name: Metric SPC-1 IOPS 224, Reported Result SPC-1 Price-Performance Total ASU Capacity Data Protection Level $9.30/SPC-1 IOPS 77, GB Mirroring Total TSC Price (including three-year maintenance) $2,091,667 SPC-1 IOPS represents the maximum I/O Request Throughput at the 100% load point. Total ASU (Application Storage Unit) Capacity represents the total storage capacity read and written in the course of executing the SPC-1 benchmark. A Data Protection Level of Mirroring configures two or more identical copies of user data. Storage Capacities and Relationships The following diagram documents the various storage capacities, used in this benchmark, and their relationships. Application Storage Unit (ASU) Capacity 77, GB ASU 1 35, GB ASU 2 35, GB ASU1: 40 Logical Volumes, GB/Volume ASU2: 40 Logical Volumes, GB/Volume ASU3: 40 Logical Volumes, GB/Volume Addressable Storage Capacity 82, GB ASU 3 7, GB Unused Storage 4, GB Unused 4, GB Configured Storage Capacity 187, GB Physical Storage Capacity 187, GB Data Protection (Mirroring) 86, GB (includes 4, GB of Unused Storage) Unused 8, GB Metadata & Mirror GB Spares 4, GB Global Storage Overhead 663.l570 GB

5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Page 5 of 7 Response Time Throughput Curve The Response Time-Throughput Curve illustrates the Average Response Time (milliseconds) and I/O Request Throughput at 100%, 95%, 90%, 80%, 50%, and 10% of the workload level used to generate the SPC-1 IOPS metric. The Average Response Time measured at the any of the above load points cannot exceed 30 milliseconds or the benchmark measurement is invalid. Ramp Phase Response Time / Throughput Curve Response Time (ms) % 80% 100% 95% 90% 10% IO Requests per Second Response Time Throughput Data 10% Load 50% Load 80% Load 90% Load 95% Load 100% Load I/O Request Throughput 22, , , , , , Average Response Time (ms): All ASUs ASU ASU ASU Reads Writes

6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Page 6 of 7 Tested Storage Configuration Pricing (Priced Storage Configuration) Item Description Qty Price GHZ T-SERIES CONTROLLER NODE GB CONTROL CACHE (2 x 2GB DIMMS) GB DATA CACHE (3 x 2GB DIMMS) PORT FIBRE CHANNEL ADAPTER (4 GBIT) INSERV T800 BASE CONFIGURATION DRIVE CHASSIS (40-DISK, 4 GBIT/S) x 146GB DRIVE MAGAZINE (15K RPM, 4 GBIT/S) M FIBER CABLE 50/125 (LC-LC) M FIBER CABLE 50/125 (LC-LC) M FIBER CABLE 50/125 (LC-LC) M CABINET KIT (WITH REDUNDANT PDU PAIR) REGIONAL KIT, NORTH AMERICA SERVICE PROCESSOR INFORM SUITE (T800) - 4 x 146GB 15K RPM MAGAZINE LTU PAR MPIO FOR IBM AIX MEDIA KIT INSTALLATION AND SET-UP 8 NODES T-SERIES HW MAINT 24X7 4HR RESP, PRICE PER NODE FOR 4, 6, AND 8 NODES T-SERIES INFORM SUITE SW MAINT, PRICE PER NODE FOR 4, 6, 8 NODES T-SERIES PAR MPIO FOR IBM AIX SW MAINT (1-10 HOSTS) T-SERIES 1 3PAR InServ T800 Storage Server Package 1 $2,082,867 --Includes 3-years Service (24x7 4 hour response) 3rd Party: IBM GB Dual-Port Fibre Channel Adapter 8 $8,800 Total $2,091,667 Differences between the Tested Storage Configuration (TSC) and Priced Storage Configuration There were no differences between the Tested Storage Configuration and the Priced Storage Configuration.

7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Page 7 of 7 Benchmark Configuration/Tested Storage Configuration Diagram Benchmark Configuration/Tested Storage Configuration Components Host Systems: Tested Storage Configuration (TSC): UID=HS-1 8 IBM 4Gb Dual Port PCI-X HBAs ( ) IBM P5 595 Model GHz CPUs 2 CPUs/POWER5 chip 32 KB L1 cache, 960 KB L2 cache, and 18 MB L3 cache per CPU MB main memory 3PAR Multipath I/O 2.2 for IBM AIX AIX 5.3 ML6 PCI-X WG UID=SC-1: 8 T-Series Controller Nodes 96 GB data cache 32 GB control cache 8 4Gb QuadPort FC Adapters (2 ports/adapter used for front-end) 16 4Gb QuadPort FC Adapters (4 ports/adapter used for backend) 5 2M Cabinet Kits GB, 15K RPM disk drives